recommended reading this week:
1.
@OpenRouterAI /
@stripe - OpenRouter is joining Stripe, and why the payments company now wants to optimize the flow of tokens as well as money
2.
@OpenAI - Codex as a platform: the open harness thesis and why agents will increasingly live inside specialized products instead of separate chat windows
3.
@GoogleDeepMind /
@googlecloud - How agents can delegate better: verifiable task decomposition, intelligent model routing, least-privilege access, and knowing when to involve a human
4.
@Mandiant - Agentic source code review: the architecture behind an AI harness that found 100+ critical vulnerabilities in two days
5. Agentic AI Foundation - A2A joins the open agentic stack: MCP connects agents to tools, A2A connects agents to each other, and both now live under neutral governance
6. Le Monde - how AI infrastructure, defense spending, and government borrowing are beginning to compete for the same capital
essential reading: Stripe x OpenRouter + Mandiant’s agentic security harness